Flanger guard-rail



(No Model.)

O. H. SHERWOOD.

FLANGER GUARD RAIL.

Patented Oct. 2, 1894,.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFIGEQ CHARLES H. SHERWOOD, v()F UTICA, ASSIGNOR'OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY C.

LYMAN, OF SHERBURNE, NEW YORK.

FLANGER GUARD-RAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,873, dated October'2, 1894.

Application filed March 7, 1894. Serial No. 502,631. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. SHERWOOD, of Utica, in the county ofOneida, in the State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Railway Guard- Rails, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to guard-rails specially designed for protectingthe scraperblade of the so-called flanger, which is employed on railwaysfor the purpose of scraping ice and sleet from the heads of thetrackrails. Said scraper-blade is attached either to an engine or a carpropelled along the railway and held in contact with the heads of thetrack-rails and is thus liable to be broken by coming in contact withthe ends of crossingfrogs and the ends of the usual guard-rails and alsowith instruments placed at the side of the track-rail for operatingsignals and other purposes.

The object of this invention is to guard against the aforesaidaccidents, and to that end the invention consists in the combinationwith the track-rail, of a flanger guard-rail extending along the side ofthe track-rail and rising gradually from opposite ends to the center toan elevation above the track-rail as hereinafter more fully describedand specifically set forth in the claim.

In the annexed drawings Figure 1 is a plan View of a railway-switchprovided with my improved guard-rail. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transversesection on line XX'- in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the aforesaid guard-rail as employedfor protecting a trackinstrument and Fig. 4 is a side View of saidguard-rail.

a denotes the track-rail and bthe usual guard-rail employed at switchesand frogs as shown respectively at cand --d'-.

e represents my improved flanger guard-rail which is placed along theside of the track-rail at the frog d and also at a track -instrument-f-- which may be employed for operating a signal or for other purposes.Said guard-rail is separate and independent of the track-rail andsufliciently distant therefrom to permit free passage of thewheel-flanges between them. Said flanger from its ends to its center toan elevation above the track-rail sufficiently to raise the flanger soas to prevent it from engaging either the ends of the guard-rail b orpoint of the frog d or track-instrument -f and thus protect the flangerfrom being broken by contact with said parts.

What I claim as my invention is- The described flanger-guard consistingof the rail rigidly secured along the side of the track-rail and havingthe top of its ends lower than the tops of the track-rail and risinggradually to the center of its length to an elevation above thetrack-rail to gradually lift the flanger from said rail and then allowit to de-- scend to the rail to scrape the same as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 25th day ofJanuary,

CHARLES H. SHERWOOD. [It s.] Witnesses: v

D. L. ATKYNS, IDA P. LYMAN.

